Thirty-eight students from Midway Elementary School and a driver were on a Davidson County school bus that overturned on Norman Shoaf Road at about 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Davidson County School System officials said.

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EMS officials said 31 injured students were taken to area hospitals to be treated for minor injuries described as mainly cuts and scrapes.

Officials at Forsyth Medical Center said all but three of the students who were taken there had been released by mid-morning. All of the students taken to Lexington Medical Center had been released by 10:30 a.m.

"Any time you have a rollover, we treat that very seriously. Thats a serious mechanism of injury, so when we receive patients from an accident of that serious nature, we have to anticipate injuries and rule them out," said Rick Lee, the director of nursing at Forsyth Medical.

Students who were on the bus described the frantic scene.

'I Thought My Sister Was Dead'

"I was wondering where my sister was, and when I got over the line, I saw her and I hugged her," one student said. "Kids were falling out of their seats into the floor, and they were falling on my sister and me. (I thought) that my sister was dead."

"I really don't know what it looked like on the bus because I totally just blacked out. I didn't know what was going on or anything," another student said. "Kids were all screaming and yelling and calling for their moms and dads."

North Carolina Highway Patrol troopers said a pickup truck crossed the center line and the bus driver, Chris Pisciotta, swerved to avoid it. One student said a tire blew on the truck, causing the truck to cross the center line.

Helicopter video taken above the scene shows a long dirt skid mark in the median of the road.

No charges have been filed in the crash. Norman Shoaf Raod, Davidson County-80.2113533020019535.98269444623594615